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Chris Coons: If you had actually encrypted Federal employees' Social Security numbers or their personally identifying information…

On the recordJune 22, 2015
If you had actually encrypted Federal employees' Social Security numbers or their personally identifying information, would that have prevented the disclosure?
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Coons questions the effectiveness of encryption in preventing data breaches.

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